RAYE’s stolen car was recovered with her songwriting books.
Earlier this year, the BRIT Award-winning star suffered a setback when her car was stolen, with both the original songbooks from her 2023 debut album My 21st Century Blues and her only copy of notes and ideas for the follow-up inside.
RAYE has now revealed that, fortunately, both the car and her notes and lyrics were returned to her months later.
Speaking on The EE Official Big Top 40, she said: “It was a rollercoaster journey, but what I didn’t tell everyone is the police called me maybe two or three months ago, and they were like, ‘We found your car.'”
She continued: “Not only did I get it back, not one thing had been taken out of the car.
“All my songwriting books were there, untouched.”
She added: “Everything ended well.
“Never give up hope.”
She didn’t let it hold her back and released the lead single from the upcoming LP, Where Is My Husband!, in September, which is currently riding high in the charts.
She told Variety: “I had a lot of brilliant poems and titles and phrases and words.
“I was starting to explore the idea of writing the lyrics to melodies. Melodies are an abundant thing you can always play with, but the lyrics are different — they’re so important.
“When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Losing and winning and trying and failing only to try again, it’s a part of life. And then maybe by a miracle, you get to succeed every now and then. I will relentlessly pursue creating music that I love. And now I get to go away for as long as I want and write a second album.”